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Music Tripos, 2000: Notice

The Faculty Board of Music give notice that they have prescribed the following papers and subjects for the Music Tripos in 2000 (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 358):

Part IA

Paper 3. Subjects in the history of music I

A. Melody as ritual
B. Constructing the Renaissance canon: Introductions to Palestrina, Byrd, and Monteverdi

Paper 4. Subjects in the history of music II and notation

World music and the western intellectual tradition

Part IB

Paper 1. Stylistic composition (also serves as Paper 4 of Part II)

The composers prescribed are: Josquin des Prez and John Taverner

Papers 2 and 3: To be announced

Part II

Paper 2. Set works

Monteverdi, L'Orfeo
Handel, Giulio Cesare in Egitto
Da Ponte and Mozart, Le Nozze di Figaro
Schumann, Davidsbündlertänze
Nielsen, Symphonies 5 and 6
Berg, Lulu

Paper 4. Stylistic composition

See Paper 1 of Part IB

Papers 6-14. Additional papers

6. Performance practice
7. Perception and performance
8. Schenkerian analysis and notation
9. Westernization and world music
10. Music, print, and culture in the Renaissance
11. To be announced
12. Music and society in the Weimar Republic
13. Ravel
14. Messiaen and the birth of the post-war avant-garde

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Cambridge University Reporter, 12 May 1999
Copyright © 1999 The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge.